In Sunrise, the Florida Panthers had six different skaters strike for goals in a 6-1 shelling of the visiting Detroit Red Wings.
Sam Montembeault made 19 saves for his second straight win for the Panthers.
Frank Vatrano had a goal in Panthers’ win – file photo by Lewis Bleiman
Florida rookies, Josh Brown and Dryden Hunt, scored their fist NHL goals in the victory.
“Sometimes it just happens like that,” Hunt said. “It’s kind of ironic that we both get it in the same game. He’s such a good friend of mine. To see him get it and follow it up with mine was pretty special.”
Aleksander Barkov and Jonathan Huberdeau scored for the Panthers as they have won two straight and trail the second wild card spot by seven points.
“[Huberdeau and I] just try to hold each accountable and try to bring the best out of each other,” Barkov said. “We’re playing with a really good player, too, [Evgenii] Dadonov. As a line, we try to push each other more and more every shift and try to control the game and play with the puck. We’re having fun, so we’ll just try to continue.”
The Wings, who are 1-7-3 in their last 11 games, got their goal from Thomas Vanek.
“They just had Grade A chance after Grade A chance,” Vanek said. “Pretty fun night for them, pretty awful for us.”
Jamie McGinn and Frank Vatrano also scored for the Panthers.
“I think our legs were good early and you could tell Detroit had played the night before. We were just ready to play. Our execution was on early and there weren’t any holes in our game for sure,” Panthers head coach Bob Boughner said after the game.
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Jimmy Howard made 37 saves in the loss.
“The feeling on the bench was we had an effort, but we just didn’t execute at all,” Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill said. “We need everybody playing their A game right now, and we didn’t tonight.”
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